The Federal Government has taken delivery of 10 of the 12 A-29 Super Tucano fighter jets expected from the U.S. and their deployment has changed the tide in the fight against terror in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the disclosure at a forum of the News Agency of Nigeria […]
The PDP has described Saturday’s local government elections in Plateau as appointments and rape of democracy. Mr John Akans, Plateau PDP Publicity Secretary made the declaration in Jos on Sunday when he spoke with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Mr Fabian Ntung, Chairman, Plateau Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC), who announced the results on Sunday, said […]
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria needs to spend the next two to three years building its immunisation infrastructure to enable the country to access and administer the WHO announced malaria vaccine. Peter Hawkins, the UNICEF Nigeria Representative, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. […]
Taiwan will keep bolstering its defenses to ensure nobody can force the island to accept the path China has laid down that offers neither freedom nor democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said Sunday, in a strong riposte to Beijing. Claimed by China as its own territory, Taiwan has come under growing military and political pressure to […]
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), says the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited had made history for being the company with the highest share capital in the country. CAC’s Registrar General, Alhaji Garba Abubakar, revealed this in Abuja, while presenting the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company to President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House. […]
French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that his country will return 26 African artworks — royal thrones, ceremonial altars, revered statues — to Benin later this month, part of France’s long-promised plans to give back artwork taken from Africa during the colonial era. Discussions have been under way for years on returning the artworks from […]
The Federal Government says it has commissioned several sites in the six geopolitical zones of the country toward actualising its promise of electrifying five millions homes with solar energy by 2023. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said this while declaring open this year’s Seplat Energy Summit in Abuja. Osinbajo who was represented by the Minister of […]
Senior U.S. officials will hold in-person talks beginning Saturday with representatives of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban for the first time since the U.S. withdrawal from the country. U.S. State Department officials said the U.S. delegation will meet Saturday and Sunday in Doha, Qatar, with senior Taliban representatives. Reuters news agency, which first reported the talks, said […]
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday the world is on the edge of a deal of new global tax rules that will start a new era of multilateralism. “The international tax agreement will stop the four-decade long race to the bottom on corporate taxation—where tax authorities offer lower tax rates to attract business, leading […]
NATO is studying options to bolster support for the multinational G5 Sahel Joint Force in the troubled three-borders region of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, where a surge in jihadis violence has cost thousands of lives, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a letter seen by AFP on Thursday. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization could […]